Re: [PATCH INSTALLED]: const typedefs part 19/N

["Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On 8/28/07, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 28 August 2007 16:27, Richard Kenner wrote:
>
> >> Well, make that "any C++ compiler" then.  Any moderately sane at least.
> >> And no, I don't see this as "radical about-turn and 180 degree shift in
> >> long-standing policy".  What policy?
> >
> > The policy of being as cautious as possible in adding things to the list
> > of requirements that a user has in being able to build GCC.
>
>   Indeed, but note the significant word "user" in there; it was my error to think
> this change would impact users.  It won't.
>
>   It should probably still be --disable-able at configure time, though, just in
> case some odd bug crops up in a C++ compiler and whoever gets bitten wants to
> just revert to using a C compiler for bootstrap and not get side-tracked into
> investigating some unrelated issue to whatever they were originally working on.

Unless, of course, we start to use C++ language features.  Which is of course
the final goal of all this excercise.  But also the second.  The first
goal is to make
it easy to _try_ using C++ language features.

Richard.